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A whirlwind tour of Washington with David Lammy
The New Statesman· 3 days agoLast week I was in Washington DC with David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary. Britain’s politics are juvenile: consider the recent absurd antics over...
The strange death of conservatism
The New Statesman· 4 days agoPundits anticipate an “extinction-level event” for the Tories at the next general election. Conservative politicians are feeling the same vibes: in the...
Alice Munro was the writer’s writer
The New Statesman· 3 days ago“The stories of Alice Munro,” the American writer Ethan Canin is said to have once remarked, “make everyone else’s look like the work of babies.” It is...
The Great Stink: Britain’s pollution crisis
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThe stream passes through a culvert, emerges from a concrete pipe and flows into Colwell Brook, where almost everything is dead. Colwell Brook is perhaps...
